After a few years away, Joel and Ethan Coen have landed themselves back in the awards-race conversation. On Wednesday, it was revealed that the directing duo’s upcoming anthology project, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, originally intended to be a Netflix series, has been made over into a feature film and will now make its world debut at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The film joins a slate of promising projects, including Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’sA Star Is Born and Damien Chazelle’sFirst Man.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a surprise entry into awards season. The project, initially announced last August, was supposed to be an anthology series about the American frontier. Netflix landed a coup by signing the Oscar-winning brothers, snarkily dropping the first press release for the show at the same time that FX chief John Landgraf was speaking at a Television Critics Association event. (Landgraf has openly criticized streaming platforms, making a quick enemy out of Netflix.) The Coen brothers previously said they don’t care much for television—even when a series based on their film Fargo was winning acclaim for FX. Then they turned around and signed the deal with Netflix, declaring in the press release, “We are streaming motherfuckers!” (Yeah, they literally said that.)

According to Variety, though the project has morphed into a feature, it will maintain its original anthology structure.

“We’ve always loved anthology movies, especially those films made in Italy in the 60s which set side-by-side the work of different directors on a common theme,” the Coens said in a statement, Variety notes. “Having written an anthology of Western stories we attempted to do the same, hoping to enlist the best directors working today. It was our great fortune that they both agreed to participate.”

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs stars Tim Blake Nelson in the titular role, as well as Zoe Kazan,Liam Neeson, and Tom Waits. For the film geeks in the back, this film was shot with an Arri Alexa camera, Variety notes, which means Scruggs will be the directors’ first-ever digital photography production. Though it will be a Netflix release, the film will also get a theatrical run, per the Oscar eligibility rules, and become available on the streaming platform at the end of 2018.

Aside from Scruggs, it appears that Netflix more broadly is making a strong showing at Venice this time around—a sharp contrast to the streamer’s standoff with the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. There will be six Netflix projects showing in total, with Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera saying that “we cannot refuse to come to terms with the reality of the new production landscape,” per Variety. The titles include Paul Greengrass’s terrorist-attack drama 22 July,Alfonso Cuarón’s semi-autobiographical family drama Roma, and Orson Welles’s unfinished The Other Side of the Wind, a work that was originally set to make its debut at Cannes before Ted Sarandos turned his back on the fest.

Plenty of other contenders are going to Venice this year as well, including Yorgos Lanthimos’sregal drama The Favourite, starring Emma Stone,Rachel Weisz, and Olivia Colman.Luca Guadagnino’sSuspiria remake will also jeté its way into the festival, as will Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn’s potential controversy machine Dragged Across Concrete, directed by S. Craig Zahler. You can check out the full lineup here.